A postcard of Battle Ground Academy and Gymnasium, circa 1909. Established in 1889, the school was named for its original location on the battle ground of the Civil War Battle of Franklin. The first campus was erected at the corner of Columbia...

A photograph of firemen fighting the flames at the O’Leary home in the Fieldstone Farms neighborhood of Franklin during the May 2010 flood. The electrical fire was caused by the flood and completely destroyed the home.
Forms part of the Nashville...

A photograph of a fireman facing the fire at the O’Leary home in the Fieldstone Farms neighborhood of Franklin during the May 2010 flood. The electrical fire was caused by the flood and completely destroyed the home.
Forms part of the Nashville...

A photograph of fire fighters standing by the ruins of the O’Leary home in the Fieldstone Farms neighborhood of Franklin after the May 2010 flood. The electrical fire was caused by the flood and completely destroyed the home.
Forms part of the...

A photograph of the O’Leary’s home in the Fieldstone Farms neighborhood of Franklin after the May 2010 flood. The electrical fire was caused by the flood and completely destroyed the home.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010 Digital...

A photograph of John and Nancy O’Leary’s home in the Fieldstone Farms neighborhood of Franklin after the May 2010 flood. The electrical fire was caused by the flood and completely destroyed the home.
Forms part of the Nashville Room Flood 2010...

A protection order granted to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee, by Head-Quarters District of Nashville, Provost Marshal's Office on April 25, 1864. The document cites protection granted for "farm, timber, forage, stock,...

A published photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about law enforcement destroying barrels of illegal whiskey, known as “moonshine,” or “white lightning” in Franklin County, Tennessee.
Franklin is one of Tennessee's southern tier of counties and...

Excerpt from an oral history interview with John and Nancy O’Leary, conducted on October 31, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. John and Nancy O’Leary’s Franklin home caught fire during the flood and they...

A slave deed bill of sale from Williamson County, Tennessee, for the transfer of a "girl slave named Mary" for the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, from Joshua Reams to William Harrison, Jr. dated Feb. 2, 1841. The verso of this document...

A slave bill of sale documenting the purchase of a "boy named Sephus aged about six years" by William Harrison, Jr., from Timothy [Terrell?] in Williamson County, Tennessee on Jan. 18, 1844. The warrant of title refers to the sum of two hundred...

A slave deed bill of sale for the acquisition of three slaves: "a woman named Betty about twenty one years of age, and her two children Louis-Randolph about four years of age, and William Henry about twelve months old." The document states that...

A slave deed bill of sale, witnessed on April 22, 1848, regarding the transfer of a slave from Robert Glass to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee. The document states that Glass sold to William Harrison, Jr. a "man called Sam...

Pictured: A big crowd welcoming the arrival of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other dignitaries at the train station, in Nashville, Tennessee, for the funeral of Congressman Joseph Wellington “Jo” Byrns, Sr. in Nashville, Tennessee. Bryns...

Pictured: Dignitaries arriving with President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the funeral service of Congressman Joseph Wellington “Jo” Byrns, Sr. in Nashville, Tennessee. Bryns (July 20, 1869-June 4, 1936) was a U.S. politician, born in Cedar Hill,...

Pictured: A big crowd welcoming the arrival of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other dignitaries, for the funeral of Congressman Joseph Wellington “Jo” Byrns, Sr. in Nashville, Tennessee. Bryns (July 20, 1869-June 4, 1936) was a U.S....

Pictured: A big crowd welcoming the arrival of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other dignitaries, for the funeral of Congressman Joseph Wellington “Jo” Byrns, Sr. in Nashville, Tennessee. Bryns (July 20, 1869-June 4, 1936) was a U.S....